Daylighting: Natural Light in Architecture

(National Geographic (Little) Kids) #1

inhibiting the view-in but at night the situation will be reversed, and it
may be necessary to resort to some form of blind or curtain, which can
have the desirable effect of ensuring that the window is not seen as a
black hole from the interior at night.


HEALTH


Daylight has long been associated with health, and in Dr Hobday’s book,
The Healing Sun, he reminds us of the work of Vitruvius in the first
century BC with his ten books on architecture. Among the classic
principles of harmony proportion and symmetry, as Vitruvius set out,


Environment 17

View out of window to fountain at Waddesden

View to Garden from study in a private house.
House of Justin De Syllas (Case Study pp. 108^
111)

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